Roger Covell
Credits
Merry-Go-Round
Australia's foremost chamber group meets one of the country's most engaging composers. Martin Wesley-Smith draws on politics (East Timor, Afghanistan), Lewis Carroll, and personal tributes to Don Banks and Peter Platt.
Shostakovich
Two of Shostakovich's most powerful and popular chamber works, given hair-raising performances by Australia's finest chamber ensemble.
Incredible Floridas
Two of Australia's finest chamber works by one of its leading composers. Richard Meale shows two major strands of his style: the coruscating drama of Incredible Floridas, a homage to Rimbaud, and the more harmonically romantic String Quartet No. 2.
Café Concertino
The Australia Ensemble, Australia's foremost chamber group and in residence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, presents commissioned and core Australian chamber works.